Amazing Grace 

Intro:

I.        Perhaps greatest loved gospel songs – Amazing Grace

A.     Written by John Newton

1.      Turned from religion young age

2.      Infidel, profligate life

3.      Captain on a slave trading ships

B.     Amazing grace, how great the sound that saved a wretch like me

II.     What is this amazing grace? How can it save you and me?

Message

I.        Saving grace is undeserved favor.

A.     Only through grace can we be saved

1.      Through grace Lord, saved same manner as they – Acts 15:11

2.      Dead trespasses, saved by grace – Eph. 2:5

3.      Justified by His grace, heirs hope eternal life – Titus 3:7

B.     Grace – unmerited favor; undeserved mercy

C.     Jesus is the very definition of grace

1.      Grace of God bringing salvation, appeared to all – Titus 2:11

2.      Received grace for grace – John 1:16

3.      High cost of grace is shown at Calvary

a.       Grace cost blood of God – only thing Jesus left here

b.      Grace cost the suffering of separation & death – Heb. 2:9; Matt. 27:46

D.     Grace is our strength

1.      We stand in grace – Rom. 5:2

2.      Rest upon grace to be received at coming – 1 Pet. 1:13

E.      Thief on the cross: undeserved favor

II.     Saving grace is undeserved obedience.

A.     Work of grace must continue

1.      Must continue in the grace of God – Acts 13:43

2.      To grow in grace – 2 Pet. 3:18

3.      Do not receive the grace of God in vain – 2 Cor. 6:1, 2

4.      Can fall short of the grace of God – Heb. 12:14, 15

B.     Grace helps in times of need

1.      Grace sufficient, perfect in weakness – 2 Cor. 12:9

2.      Grace to help in time of need – Heb. 4:16

3.      Grace & apostleship for obedience to the faith – Rom. 1:5

C.     Noah: undeserved obedience – Gen. 6:8, 22

III.   Saving grace is not an undeserved name.

A.     Grace of God turned into lewdness – Jude 1:4

B.     Grace cannot cover unconfessed sin

1.      Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound – Rom. 6:1, 2

2.      Sin shall not have dominion over you – Rom. 6:14, 15

3.      Slaves to whom you obey – Rom. 6:16

C.     Our lives – is our saving grace an undeserved name?

1.      Is there sin that we are clinging to in our lives?

2.      Patting ourselves that grace will cover open sin?

3.      Thief on cross, trusting in that undeserved favor; like Noah receiving that undeserved obedience?

4.      Choose now to experience – sweet sound of amazing grace?